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| 1965 |
| | | Australia sends a first contingent of 1500 troops to fight in Vietnam | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The Vietcong launch widespread attacks on South Vietnamese cities during the Tet (lunar new year) holiday | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US soldiers massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Norman Mailer publishes The Armies of the Night, based on his experiences on an anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington in October 1967 | |
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| 1970 |
| | | US film director Robert Altman launches a successful and long-running theme with his Vietnam black comedy, M*A*S*H | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Four students are killed by National Guards during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio | |
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| 1971 |
| | | US and South Vietnamese troops cross the border to invade Laos | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Evidence of official deception concerning US involvement in Vietnam is published in the New York Times as the Pentagon Papers | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Paris Peace Accords end the US combat role in Vietnam, with nothing achieved and millions dead | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The last US troops leave Vietnam, ending American involvement in a continuing war between the north and south of the country | |
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